Field Coverage

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

1 January 1961

UNRWA, whose purpose is to provide relief for Palestine Refugees and to assist them to become self-supporting, began operations in May 1950.
To protect vulnerable groups - undernourished children, pregnant or nursing mothers and T.B. out-patients - UNRWA's supplementary feeding centers in each camp provide a hot meal for over 42,000 children daily and rations are distributed to 31,000 refugees monthly.
Refugees in the Supplementary Feeding Centre at Khan El Sheih camp, near Damascus. 1961.

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